The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 18, 1929, Page 2

Page Two DATLY WORK ANUARY 18, 1929 = poaers Sane ae, Rk MEMORIAL MEETING Student Beaten Up by hool Principal > = ae @ DOUBTED JINCO . bale tio Rotana . CUBAN MILITANT N I | INTERPRETATION £@ 0 ease . ‘ALSO TO TELL OF | OFU,S. HISTORY, MACHADO TERROR f ‘Authorities Tried to! | Denounce Plans of U.S. Declare Him Insane | school clinic, v school. for challenging the teacher on a point of fact. tory teacher called him an His his “unbal- anced Bolshevik,” and the principal tried to label him as insane and ward. send him to the insanity When during a clas hat the account in book about the tariff of false and offered to bring in another book to bear out his point of view, the teacher called him an “unbal- anced Bolshevik” and told him that hereafter he would not be allowed to ask any more ions. The next day the student brought the book * but the teacher would ni ow him to talk. After class she scolded him for embarrassing her before the stu- dents. They agreed to let the prin- cipal decide. said y text was ri iff o Beaten, Doped. y Skolnick was sick, } | S. S. Maje: 1 think. decks no matter how rough } pe | Maje killing him. The passengers were jestic is a large ship, but its crew is not They must be continually in motion acr: , throwing a.member of the crew against a steel beam and Imperialists i | Continued from Page One | | the ngements committee that | nt¢ | » Rodrigo, intimate compani- | on of Julio and also a Cuban rev- | | olutionist, will address the meeting. | |Rodrigo has just arrived in the United States from Cuba, following aterm in the military prison at Havana. It was Rodrigo who wrote to Julio Mella and warned him of the plans of assassins. Rodrigo j received ply from Julio, in which the latter said he would be on his guard, » safe as the slip- A giant wave struck the sea is. able to remain in their staterooms. | WORKING WOMEN _ HIT‘PEAGE’ PACT Demand Soviet Union Recognized Continued from Page One Rodrigo, when interviewed, told | the despotic rule of the Wall Street puppet, Machado, intent upon |crushing out the fighting life of the | jcppressed and discontented masses | jof Cuba. Revolutionists, he said, PICKET CONSUL Tammany Police Club }son after going through the motions |ct what is called a “military trial.” Workers; Jail One | Rodrigo appealed to all work in New York and especially to Latin | Continued from Page One jof ericans to attend the meeting to- | after he appeared at the | wheih is at office, very faint and weak. Hel others with fainted while talking to Miss Clark, /together the same organizations the principal, who ordered him taken | hich were so active in support of mpting to fool itself and fist phrases, brings * League, was also hit and several other workers were beaten with a broomstick. | orrow. Speaking of Mella’s mur- der, he said the subsidized Cuban | press suppressed the truth in a most outrageous manner, to the clinic. At the clinic the prin- cipal told the doctor, who was still). a medical student, that Skolnick was “no good,” that he was “a nuisance around the school” and that he was an “unbalanced Bolshevik.” Princi- pal and doctor wanted to send him to the city ward but Skolnick refused to go and re: ed. He was given four injections of morphine and because he resisted he was beaten and thrust into a strait- jacket. The doctor pronounced him insane and the principal declared that he would not be permitted to come back to school. A Questioning Mind. When Skolnick returned to con- sciousness he found that his teeth had been broken, his nose and cheek | had been bruised. On subsequent examination by experienced doctors and specialists he was declared to + be perfectly ie. Students declare that Skolnick was | perfectly sane but that he was not liked by the teachers for the em-| =. barrassing questions he asked and © for his conversations with students > on Communism and related matters, Tickets Going Quickly » for Harlem Interracia _ Dance on Tuesday Eve Announcement that the Hall John- ¢ son Negro Choir will top the mu- sical program next Tuesday evening, Jan. 22, at the Renaissance Casino, 138th St. and Seventh Ave., has re- sulted in a heavy run on tickets for the Inter-Racial Solidarity Demon- stration Dance which is being run under the joint auspices of the Negro Champion and the American Negro Labor Congress. Other prominent artists on an outstanding program include Paul and Thelma Meeres, tango dance Doris Rheubottom, |the last war, and which worked so ystematically then to drag the working women into war activity. [Not one word has been spoken at \this conference of the horrors of |war and its results for the workers. We denounce this conference as a |fake and a sham and a menace to \the women of the working class. We protest particularly against the jfact that the only organization in- cluded which can even pretend to |represent workers, the Women’s Trade Union League, is one which jhas proved continually by its ac- tions, by its support of the last war, by its failure to organize the un- organized women, and by its sub- servience to the A. F. of L. and its reactionary policies that it repre- jsents the interests not of the work- ers but of the employers. | We working women see the al- liance between pacifism or prepared- ness. We know that the war being prepared will conscript working men for the battlefields to slaughter the workers of other countries. It will jconscript working women and chil- |dren for the factories to manufac- |ture the instruments of slaughter, nd food, clothing and other sup- lies to maintain the armies. We know that this war will be fought only for new markets for American | industrialists and financiers, only |for greater profits for American, employers. We working women have raised; |a protest here in Washington at the moment of the passage of the Kel- logg Pact, the introduction of the | Navy Bill and the Women’s “Peace” jconference. By counter-demonstra- tion and picketing we have sought to bring home to the workers of the country, particularly to the women of the working class, the danger of ity |pacifist illusions and the nece: jof organizing for an open de The police then pushed Fleiss and; “The first day,” he said, “the Hr Anna Nemser into a taxicab ard)’@"@ papers announced that Mel’ | Was killed by two robbers. The fc! took them to First Magistrate’s;,°". i ‘7 Guat jlowing these same papers sz sche jhe was slain over a love affe’. Magistrate Hugh Simpson was,Then they forgot ull about the k*- very excited. Such an “outrage ing. Three of the largest papr - against British imperialism must not|in Cuba are owned by Preside be tolerated. The magistrate felt| Machado himself. that destiny had selected him to} Controls Bank. vindicate the “friendship” of Ameri-| “Machado also controls, with W: | can imperialism for its British rival, | Street associates, the Bank of Cul He entered upon an abusive tirade| With Wall Street interests, he hs against the arrested workers and/jalso taken over the ownership a the organizations that had arranged supervision of the largest electri: the demonstration. The only evi-| power plant in the country. As dence permitted was the “evidence” | result, prohibitive prices are b of the police. Jacques Buitenkant,|charged for power by Machado, 2 representing the New York District |the people, even the petty bourgeoi of the International Labor Defense, | are compiaining in vain.” who appeared in defense of the} Speaking of the white workers, was not allowed to speak. | Rodrigo said: Pointing to Buitenkant, Magistrate} “There is no such thing as a civi! Simpson shouted to an attendatt:/trial for a Communist or even : “Take this man away from here.”|tyade union leader in Cuba. Worker: Buitenkant protested, but to no/jfighting oppression are thrust int avail. prisons and treated like jungl: Hold Worker Without Bail. beasts. The prison in which I wa: . [jailed was cold and damp and th: After he had exhausted all his |food_ terrible. Lights were extin held Fleiss for investigation Satur. |"°O" and we were kept in darkness day morning. He refused to accept ayia eeda £ Laid tor the worker. “A labor leader, who preceded me ~ i in the same cell was driven insane The New York District of the In-}hy the treatment. He scribbled ternational Labor Defense last |these words on the wall before he night issued a statement condemn-|y-as taken to the asylum: ‘I have ing what it terms one of the most) been held here 90 days without see- brutal, most brazenly anti-labor ex-/ing the light of the sun. My wife hibitions ever given by a New York|end children are starving. I am judge. It calls upon all class-con- | gy wing insane.’ scious workers not to be intimidated Workers Fight Bloody Rule. by the activity of the Tammany! “The Machado regime is working police department and to continue! with might and main to destroy the protest demonstrations in behalf of |trade union movement in Cuba. The Johnstone. | tools of Wall Street are killing, per- |secuting and deporting Communists |and other labor leaders. But in spite terror songbird of the Alhambra Theatre;|mined struggle against the war Elizabeth Welsh, one of the most|danger and at the same time against popular members of the cast of the oppression and exploitation of “Blackbirds.” |the workers which goes with im- Boxes are also selling rapidly, with|perialism. Our struggle against the the following organizations already|forces of American imperialism Freeman Will Speak on ‘American Writers’ at |°s.°% rations Worker School Sunday Joseph Freeman, labor journalist and writer, will | of their efforts, the organized work- making headway. The fede- of tobacco and railroad workers are two of the most mili- tant bodies challenging the bloody tule of Machado.” All arrangements for the Lenin listed for nineteen of the total of ‘thirty boxes at the Renaissance Ca- ae Architectural Bronze and Iron Workers; Window Cleaners’ Protec- ive Union No. 8; B. S. E. I. U. itian Patriotic Union; Spanish Workers’ Club; Tropical Stars; Hai tian Progressive Union; “The Ham mer”; New York Federation of Working Women; the International Labor Defense; the Anti-Imperialist jague; the Workers’ International Relief; the Negro Workers’ Relief} ‘ittee; the Women Day Work- ers’ Union; the “New Masses”; y Union Educational League; the Office Workers’ Union; District of the Workers Party; Section 4 ‘of District 2 of the Workers Party; the Harlem Tenants’ League, and _ the Students’ Literary Association. Dance music will be furnished by the famous Vernon Andrade Renais- ance Orchestra. "Jessica Smith Speaks ‘on Soviet Women at Bronx Forum Sunday fessica Smith, author of “Women the Soviet Union,” will be the pal speaker at the Bronx Open orum, 1830 Wilkins Ave., the ronz, this Sunday evening at 8 The subject of her lecture ye “Women in the Soviet Smith recently returned a@ long stay in the Soviet A, travelling from city to city, a village to village, observing studying conditions there with cular attention to women’s d their future in the So- public. She will have much that will be instructive, and inspiring, accord- e arrangements committee im. jout a revolutionary theory 'y pare Lenin memorial meet- 19, im Madisom Square | must be linked up with the struggles jof the workers throughout the world, particularly in those colonial countries which are being enslaved by Wall Street, and with the strug-| gle of the workers and peasants of | the Soviet Union against the threat- ened attack by the combined capi- talist powers of the whole world against this stronghold and hope of the workers of the whole world, We call upon working men and women everywhere to unite in a struggle against the menace ‘of war by or- ganizing to fight imperialism, the| real cause of war, and especially American imperialism, the greatest menace to the workers today. (Signed) Vera Buch, National Textile Union; Clara Meltzer, Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union; Helen Zarkowsky, Em- broidery Workers Union, Fur Work- ers Section; Olga Gold, National Textile Union, Knitgoods Workers Section; Edythe Cohen, Millinery | Workers Union, Local 43; Fannie Austin, Negro Women Day Workers Union; Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Work- ers (Communist) Party; Harriet) Silverman, All-America Anti-Im- perialist League; Kate Gitlow, New Yorl: Working Women’s Federation, United Council of Workingelass| be the principal n Memorial meeting have been com- pleted. A huge portrait of Lenin, especially painted for the occasion, will adorn the speakers’ platform. speaker at the Workers School Forum to be held this Sunday even- ing at 8 o’clock at the Workers Cen- ter, 26 Union Square, on the Sixth floor. ?' The subject of his lecture will’ be “Modern American Writers.” A, B. Magil, of the editorial staff of the Daily Worker, will be chairman. Freeman will discuss various American writers, some of whom have been known for over a decade, | and several of those who are just emerging from obscurity. Among them will be Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Up- ton Sinclair, Morley Callaghan, and others. Rhys Williams Speaks on Peasant Life in the Soviet Union Sunday The life of the Russian peasant, his cultural and material develop- ment, will be the subject of a lec- ture by Rhys Williams, who hae jlived for five years among the pea- sants in the Soviet Union. He will speak under the auspices of the American Society for Cultural Re- lations with Russia, at the Martin REE | Beck Theatre, Sunday night, Jan,! MORE FOR COMMERCE BOARD. '20, | TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 17 up—! Williams will describe the life in| Increase in its share of the state’s the Archangel Forest, in the moun-/ gasoline tax was sought today by|tains of the Caucasus, in the the Board of Commerce and Navi-| Crimea, on the Ukrainian steapes | gation in a special report to the|and with the tartars. Miss Nina) state legislature. Increase to five|Tarasova, who has just returned | per cent, which would make a gain|from the Soviet Union, will sing) from $90,000 to $400,000, is asked.| Russian folk songs. | Down With Factionalism! For Party Unity! | Continued from Page One Women; Elsie Pulitur, New Eng- land Federation of Working! Women; Gertrude Duell, New Haven | Working Women’s Clubs; Eva’ Hoffman, Mothers’ Leagues of New| England; Antonia Wechsler, Hun-) garian Workers Clubs; Helen Yeske- | vich, Lithuanian Working Women’s Federation; Ryli Maki, Finnish | Working Women’s Federation. e Soviet of Workers’ d Soldiers’ Delegates? Its ¢! ignifieance is outright ‘here ix no an we now with the war! does throw iene to thing teach this thing.” Lenin soon after overthrow of this by over exarist power. Lenin” memorial meeting, January 19, im Madinon Square Garden, tional moves by the Minority; subordination of the Minority to the Majority, in accordance with the theses of the Sixth World Congress, - immediately after the Party Convention. \ ‘These are the only conditions the Central Executive Committee lays down as prerequisites for complete Party unity. There is not one single item among them which demands the humiliation of the Minority. The acceptance of these conditions means only the acknowledgement of the leadership of the Communist International without any reservations, the acknowledgment of the most elementary principles of democratic centralization and Leninist discipline in the Party. Abolition of factionalism, the greatest curse of our Party, which prevents its further development, is the demand of the hour! Complete unity of all Communist forces to combat the imperialist | war danger, to struggle against the Right danger, the main danger within the Party, and against the Trotskyist splitters! No factional rule but crystallization of the broadest proletarian leadership! | Unity of all Communist forces on the basis of the line of the eee and acceptance of all Comintern decisions without reserva- | tions, CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE | WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA. | a Sat., Jan. 19 Doors Open 7 P. M. Madison Sq. Garden 49th Street & 8th Avenue Freiheit Gesangs Verein Symphonic Brass Band “1905” “1917” ‘INSURRECTION’ , Revolutionary Program by the Noted Pianist JASCHA FISHERMANN. Soviet Sports | Spectacle BY LABOR SPORTS UNION ‘ i SPEAKERS: JAY LOVESTONE WM. Z. FOSTER and OTHERS ' ADMISSION: 50c & $1.00 Auspices: WORKERS (Communist) PARTY, 26 Union Square, New York City | |